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Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide

You're reading from Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide Learn how to use AWS Fargate to run containers with ease

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789345018

Length 190 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Containerization

Author (1):

Deepak Vohra

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Contributors

Preface

1. Getting Started with Amazon ECS and Amazon Fargate FREE CHAPTER

2. Networking

3. Using CloudWatch Logs

4. Using Auto Scaling

5. Using IAM

6. Using an Application Load Balancer

7. Using Amazon ECS CLI

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Index

Exploring CloudWatch Logs

In this section, we shall find details about the CloudWatch logs generated and display the log streams generated:

Click on Logs in the CloudWatch Console, as shown in the following screenshot:

In Filter, specify /ecs/mysql or just /ecs, which is the value of the awslogs-stream-prefix option for the awslogs log driver, as configured in the container definition in the Configuring logging section. The log group /ecs/mysql-task-definition is displayed, as shown in the following screenshot:

Click on the log group to display the log streams, as shown in the following screenshot:

The log events in the log stream get displayed. Each log event is associated with a timestamp and a log message. An example log message is Initializing database, as shown in the following screenshot. Some of the messages have [Warning] associated with them:

A CloudWatch log message indicating the MySQL database is running and accepting connections is the message mysqld: ready for connections, as...

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Authors (1)

Deepak Vohra

Deepak Vohra

Deepak Vohra is consultant and principle a member of the NuBean software company. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) and Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) and has worked in the fields of XML, Java programming, and J2EE for over 10 years. He is the coauthor of the Apress book Pro XML Development with Java Technology. Deepak is the author of several Packt Publishing books, including Processing XML documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Java EE Development with Eclipse. Deepak is also a Docker Mentor and has published four other Docker-related books.

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